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November 1: Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)

The Columbus

1141 – After Empress Matilda released her rival King Stephen, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
1824 – The disposable ship Columbus (pictured) arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force departed Albany, Western Australia.
1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
1972 – Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.

Lie Kim Hok (b. 1853)
Peter Ostrum (b. 1957)
Fred Thompson (d. 2015)
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley (d. 2020)

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November 2

Crew of Expedition 1

1880 – James A. Garfield was elected as president of the United States; the election is the closest to date by popular vote margin.
1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus", flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1994 – A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
2000 – As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.

John J. Loud (b. 1844)
William Pūnohu White (d. 1925)
Gao Qifeng (d. 1933)
Shah Rukh Khan (b. 1965)

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November 3: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2025); Culture Day in Japan

Godzilla film poster

1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile.
1943 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp.
1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released (poster pictured) nationwide in Japan.
1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.

Andrew Báthory (d. 1599)
Bert Jansch (b. 1943)
Anna Wintour (b. 1949)
Kim Yong-nam (d. 2025)

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November 4: National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy

Yitzhak Rabin

1780 – Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.
1924 – In a special election in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
2010 – In the first aviation incident involving an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Changi Airport in Singapore with no casualties.

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
Antoine Le Maistre (d. 1658)
Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908)
Elsie MacGill (d. 1980)

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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries; Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2025)

Meir Kahane

1556 – At the Second Battle of Panipat, forces of the Mughal emperor Akbar captured Hemu, the Hindu emperor of north India.
1854 – Crimean War: Despite being severely outnumbered, and fighting in heavy foggy conditions, the allied armies of the United Kingdom and France defeated the Russians in present-day Inkerman, Ukraine.
1916 – An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces began a military campaign on Japanese-occupied Singapore.
1990 – Israeli ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane (pictured) was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.

James Clerk Maxwell (d. 1879)
Vivien Leigh (b. 1913)
Edward Tatum (d. 1975)
Eliud Kipchoge (b. 1984)

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November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden

Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University

1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was submitted for publication.
1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pictured) in Kraków.
2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that also killed six people on the train.
2012 – Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

Stanisław Staszic (bap. 1755)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1893)
Ida Lou Anderson (b. 1900)
Hilda Braid (d. 2007)

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November 7

Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse

680 – The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
1825 – Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state.
1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza following the retreat of the Ottoman garrison.
1972 – A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured), which killed ten people.
1987 – Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.

Maldeo Rathore (d. 1562)
Thomas Brassey (b. 1805)
Emanuele Luigi Galizia (b. 1830)
Ri Ul-sol (d. 2015)

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November 8

King Christian II

960 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo, Byzantine forces led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated their army.
1520 – After his coronation as king of Sweden, Christian II (pictured) gave the order to execute nearly 100 people, mostly noblemen, despite promises of general amnesty.
1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history.

Nyaungyan Min (b. 1555)
Subroto Mukerjee (d. 1960)
Dorothy Kilgallen (d. 1965)
Tom Anderson (b. 1970)

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November 9

Flag of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

1822 – USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
1913 – A severe blizzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of cargo, and killing more than 250 people.
1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured), which is again in use today, with slight modifications, by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
1985 – At age 22, Garry Kasparov became the then-youngest World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.
2019 – The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century".

Johannes Narssius (b. 1580)
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (d. 1854)
Bob Gibson (b. 1935)
Charles de Gaulle (d. 1970)

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November 10

The flag of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

1202 – Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.
1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald (ship banner depicted) sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.
1995 – Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.
2020 – The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.

Władysław Umiński (b. 1865)
Richard Burton (b. 1925)
Halina Reijn (b. 1975)
Klaus Roth (d. 2015)

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November 11: Armistice Day (known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations and Veterans Day in the United States); Singles' Day in China and Southeast Asia.

Ian Smith

1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Dürenstein.
1920 – In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after he falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
1965 – Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith (pictured), unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.

Arsacius of Tarsus (d. 405)
George S. Patton (b. 1885)
Jeanne Demessieux (d. 1968)
Francisco Blake Mora (d. 2011)

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November 12

The Battle of Posada

1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada (depicted).
1920 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.
1940 – World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
1970 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.
2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.

Auguste Rodin (b. 1840)
Liu Shaoqi (d. 1969)
Anne Hathaway (b. 1982)
Márton Fülöp (d. 2015)

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November 13

Nevado del Ruiz

1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot forces captured Montreal without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec.
1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.

Dorothea Erxleben (b. 1715)
Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955)
Moshe Pesach (d. 1955)
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1989)

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November 14: World Diabetes Day; Dobruja Day in Romania

Eugene Burton Ely taking off from USS Birmingham

1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680 (pictured), the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932, chartered by the Marshall University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.
2010 – Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.

Fanny Mendelssohn (b. 1805)
Mary Greyeyes (b. 1920)
A. Thomas Bradbury (d. 1992)
Neil Heywood (d. 2011)

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November 15

William Tecumseh Sherman

655 – Penda of Mercia and Æthelhere of East Anglia were defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in Yorkshire, England.
1864 – American Civil War: Union army general William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) began his March to the Sea, inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
1908 – As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
1922 – Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.

Johannes Kepler (d. 1630)
Eugénie Hamer (b. 1865)
Howard Baker (b. 1925)
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa (d. 2024)

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November 16

Flag of UNESCO

1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, the Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel was hanged for high treason.
1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (flag depicted) was founded.
1967 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.
1981 – About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.

Ælfric of Abingdon (d. 1005)
Sofonisba Anguissola (d. 1625)
Guillermo Lasso (b. 1955)
Hannah Hampton (b. 2000)

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November 17

The Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir-el-Bahari

1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces won the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the Austrians' line of retreat.
1968 – NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
1989 – Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, beginning the Disney Renaissance.
1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari (temple pictured) in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
2009 – Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.

Nikephoros Melissenos (d. 1104)
Agnes of Jesus (b. 1602)
Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (b. 1729)
Nicolas Appert (b. 1749)

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November 18

Aftermath of the Aggie Bonfire collapse

1809 – Napoleonic Wars: In the Bay of Bengal, a French frigate squadron captured three ships carrying recruits for the armies of the East India Company.
1956 – At the Polish embassy in Moscow, a phrase in an address by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was translated into English as "We will bury you", prompting Western envoys to leave the room.
1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
2014 – Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight deaths, including the attackers themselves.

Rose Philippine Duchesne (d. 1852)
Lise Østergaard (b. 1924)
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
Chloë Sevigny (b. 1974)

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November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)

Pelé in 1960

1794 – The United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1824 – Temenggong Abdul Rahman of Johor and Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor ceded the governance of Singapore to the British East India Company.
1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé (pictured) scored his thousandth goal.
1991 – Mexican singer Luis Miguel released the album Romance, which led to a revival of interest in bolero music.
2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in two and sank off the coast of Galicia after spilling 420 thousand barrels (17.8 million US gallons) of oil, in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

Jane Freilicher (b. 1924)
Margaret Turner-Warwick (b. 1924)
James Ensor (d. 1949)
Erika Alexander (b. 1969)

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November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance

Graffiti from the occupation of Alcatraz

284 – Diocletian became Roman emperor, eventually establishing reforms that ended the Crisis of the Third Century.
1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British naval force arrived at the settlement of Portobello in the Spanish Main, capturing it the next day.
1969 – A group of Native American activists began a 19-month occupation (graffiti pictured) of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
1979 – Armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
1994 – In accordance with the Lusaka Protocol, the Angolan government signed a ceasefire with UNITA rebels in a failed attempt to end the Angolan Civil War.

Carl Axel Arrhenius (d. 1824)
Maya Plisetskaya (b. 1925)
Meredith Whitney (b. 1969)
Ancel Keys (d. 2004)

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November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh

Alan Freed

1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
1964 – The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.

Voltaire (b. 1694)
Hetty Green (b. 1834)
Milka Planinc (b. 1924)
Catherine Bauer Wurster (d. 1964)

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November 22

Johnson taking the presidential oath of office

1574 – Juan Fernández, a Spanish explorer, discovered an archipelago that now bears his name off the coast of Chile.
1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Formosa launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
1963 – John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States (pictured).
1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering disaster, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands.

Frank Matcham (b. 1854)
Edwin Thumboo (b. 1933)
Chip Berlet (b. 1949)
Scarlett Johansson (b. 1984)

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November 23

Edwin Hubble

1644 – In opposition to licensing and censorship during the English Civil War, John Milton's Areopagitica was published, arguing for the right to free expression.
1924 – The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble (pictured) stating that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is in fact another galaxy.
2003 – Rose Revolution: Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as President of Georgia following weeks of mass protests over disputed election results.
2009 – A crowd of people on their way to register Esmael Mangudadatu's candidacy for governor of Maguindanao, Philippines, were kidnapped and killed by supporters of his rival, resulting in 58 deaths.
2011 – Arab Spring: After months of protests in Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to transfer power to Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Colin Turnbull (b. 1924)
Cornelius Ryan (d. 1974)
Aklilu Habte-Wold (d. 1974)
Miley Cyrus (b. 1992)

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November 24: Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism)

Hibiscus Rising

1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces captured about 1,200 Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss.
1859 – British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
1976 – A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of buildings in the region and causing at least 4,000 casualties.
2009 – The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania.
2023 – Hibiscus Rising (pictured), a sculpture commemorating the life of David Oluwale, was unveiled in Leeds.

Zachary Taylor (b. 1784)
Eileen Barton (b. 1924)
Tarō Yamamoto (b. 1974)
Goo Hara (d. 2019)

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November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)

Stanisław II Augustus, 1764

1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
1795 – Stanisław II Augustus (pictured), the last king of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1901 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 premiered in Munich.
1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ended as American and South Korean units abandoned their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
1981 – A group of Conservative members of Parliament wrote a letter outlining their opposition to the economic policy of Margaret Thatcher, leading to speculation over a split from the party.

Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
Hermann Kolbe (d. 1884)
Charles Kennedy (b. 1959)
Nick Drake (d. 1974)

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November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949)

Main Building of the University of Notre Dame

1842 – The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
1942 – World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.
2011 – NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Curiosity rover on board.

Ralph Agas (d. 1621)
Rudolph Koenig (b. 1832)
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (b. 1931)
Tina Turner (b. 1939)

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November 27: Thanksgiving in the United States (2025)

Alfred Nobel

1095 – At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, declaring holy war against the Muslims who had occupied the Holy Land and were attacking the Eastern Roman Empire.
1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
1945 – A consortium of twenty-two U.S. charities founded CARE with the mission of delivering food aid to Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
1989 – A bomb placed by the Medellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidate César Gaviria destroyed Avianca Flight 203, killing all 107 people on board, excluding Gaviria, who was not on the flight.
2020 – Nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, was assassinated, allegedly by Mossad.

Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (b. 1635)
Rachel Brooks Gleason (b. 1820)
George Moscone (d. 1978)
Ciputra (d. 2019)

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November 28: Black Friday in the United States (2025); Bukovina Day in Romania

Skanderbeg

1443 – Having deserted the Ottoman army, Skanderbeg (pictured) arrived in the Albanian city of Krujë and, using a forged letter from Sultan Murad II to the governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.
1895 – The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
1903 – SS Petriana struck a reef near Point Nepean, leading to Australia's first major oil spill and a debate over the White Australia policy.
2016 – LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.

Manuel I Komnenos (b. 1118)
Magnus Olsen (b. 1878)
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
Helen of Greece and Denmark (d. 1982)

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November 29: Liberation Day in Albania

Screenshot of a game of Pong

1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong, running low on water, began the killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance.
1810 – Napoleonic Wars: British troops rendezvoused at Grand Baie to launch an invasion of Isle de France, now known as Mauritius.
1924 – The Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in the eastern US for three years in a row.
1963 – Five minutes after taking off from Montréal–Dorval, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed in bad weather, killing all 118 people on board.
1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong (screenshot pictured), one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
2012 – In resolution 67/19, the United Nations General Assembly voted to accord the status of a non-member observer state to Palestine.

Christian Doppler (b. 1803)
George Brown (b. 1818)
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (b. 1908)
Yōichi Masuzoe (b. 1948)

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November 30: Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)

Flying Scotsman

1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
1934 – Flying Scotsman (pictured) became the first steam locomotive officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
1953 – Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
1954 – A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object.
1999 – A series of protests by anti-globalization activists against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle forced the cancellation of the opening ceremonies.

Richard Farrant (d. 1580)
Jagadish Chandra Bose (b. 1858)
Ben Stiller (b. 1965)
Eir Aoi (b. 1988)

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